Public sector agency management

Author: Zhang Taijian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: As the Master of Business Administration (MBA) is becoming increasingly popular and flourishing worldwide, a brand-new concept—MBA (Master of Business Administration)—has emerged. However, millions of workers in government and other public sectors are left yearning to enter this field, hindered by enrollment requirements, financial constraints, or time limitations. To address this yearning, we have compiled this self-study series for core MPA courses, helping you bring the MPA classroom to your home. "Public Sector Agency Management" is one such course. Agency management is a component of public administration and is widely present in the operational processes of government institutions, political parties, public institutions, social intermediary organizations, and other public sectors. It plays an irreplaceable role by providing essential support for the functional activities of these departments. To ensure this role is effectively realized, personnel at all levels involved in public administration must fully recognize the unique patterns of agency management and master its fundamental methods and techniques. For this very reason, the Master of Public Administration program has established it as a core course. According to the structure and division of labor in the MPA professional curriculum system, "Public Sector Agency Management" as a course does not cover all activities of public sector agencies but focuses on the transactional activities that lay the foundation and provide conditions for agencies to fulfill their functions, primarily office-related and logistical activities. The basic function of the "Public Sector Agency Management" course is also primarily to provide professional training for the program's trainees, helping them explore and master the fundamental patterns, knowledge, methods, and approaches of agency transactional activities, enabling them to meet the basic requirements of practical work. The specific course content and objectives determine the basic content system of this book, which is structured as follows:
1. General Part: Basic concepts and principles, such as the conceptual framework of agency management, the characteristics, tasks, functions, systems, and basic principles of agency management.
2. Management Content Part: Activities such as office document management and confidentiality, electronic file management, archives and information management, agency information network management, meeting management, financial management, personnel and administrative management, public relations, staff quality management, performance appraisal, and procedural management.
3. Common Management Methods and Techniques Part: Primarily includes widely used techniques in agency management practice, such as work simplification, standardization, office quality management, flowchart and decision table drawing, quality analysis chart drawing, network diagram drawing, office technology, and computer application technology.
During the writing process of this book, we adhered to five principles: popularizing professional theory, socializing teaching content, and operationalizing authoritative doctrines, aiming to make it as suitable as possible for numerous public sector workers and other MPA self-study learners. Ultimately, you can effortlessly complete this core self-study curriculum and become an outstanding talent in public administration.